ISSUE #19JANUARY 2012

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Betty and Danny with some of the orphans at BHO

Happy New Year Bridge-port!Residents of Bridge-port took the opportu-nity to start the new year in style.

BRIDGEPORT - Time passes by faster and fast-er every day. What with the busy working lives of adults and school for children, we find our-selves shocked at how quickly the year passes us by. There simply isn’t enough time in the day anymore, and everyone

is glad when the holi-days come around. With Christmas over, all are excited for the new year - Prospects of resolutions, new beginnings and of course, big parties.

This new year’s eve was no exception. Bridge-port, known for its exotic clubs and bars, was defi-nitely the place to be on December 31st. Not only was the nightlife alive and kicking, but it was

all for a good cause too! Club owner Danny Ri-ley teamed up with three other major bar owners and convinced them to donate all proceeds from the night to Bridgeport Home for the Orphaned. BHO has had a trouble-some financial year, and Danny (having adopted his child from this or-phanage) has a close con-nection to the home and wanted to help.

Residents were happy to support the movement, and on new year’s eve, the four clubs raised a total of §278.558! The majority will go towards building more rooms for the large number of children the home supports, as well as late Christmas gifts for all of them. Danny handed over the cheque on new year’s day, much to the delight of manager Bet-ty Herman. “We are so grateful for this generous donation. Thank you for initiating this, Danny!”

With happiness all around, one can’t help but be optimistic for the new year – The children of BHO certainly are!

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Man lights fire-works at homeSUNSET VALLEY - A slightly lonely man tried to light fireworks inside his house. Nobody came to visit him on new years eve, so he decided to throw his own party in his living room.

‘It was actually quite some fun’, Peter Wood-fall says.

‘The ceiling is black now, but I was planning to paint it anyway. I wanted to go for white, but black does the trick as well. My room smells a bit smoky right now though. Maybe I should use a fire extin-guisher to clean it!’

The Trueman family celebrating Christmas. We weren’t sure whether this was the real celebration or the one for the TV show

Family Celebrations not what they seemFamily celebrates holi-days half a year before real life counterpart.

SUNSET VALLEY – This time of year, people usu-ally celebrate Christmas together with the people they love. But not every-one celebrates Christmas when one would expect them to. The Trueman family for instance. They’ve celebrated Christmas already a few months back, when oth-ers in Sunset Valley were enjoying their holiday and spending time at the beach getting a tan. “We were participating in

a TV show that followed us a year on TV. But, the recordings would be shown on TV half a year later. This meant that we had to life our lives half a year “out of sync”,” ac-cording to William True-man, one of the partici-pants of the TV show. Birthday’s, public events and also holiday’s were all lived out half a year in advance. This also for Christmas. “The Christ-mas episodes are airing when the ‘real’ world cel-ebrates Christmas. But we’ve recorded them half a year ago, meaning that we’ve already had Christ-

mas dinner and presents last summer.”

Tom Hall, producer, writ-er and director of the TV Show (aptly titled ‘The True Man show’) com-ments on this; “no noth-ing was scripted in the show. Everything hap-pened as it did. Though, half a year in advance yes, but we had no script whatsoever. Sure, we had a few guidelines here and there, and the family had to behave exactly as we told them to, but other than that, they just did things the way they nor-mally would!”

OPINIONSDo you have any new years resolutions?

What does our panel think of this argument?

Oscarr Parke Muscle Lover

Amanda Robinson Neo hippie

Hansel SchlagerProfessional yodeler

Sure, to be in the gym even more. To get even more muscles. To wear even sexier sports outfits. To become even more attrac-tive.

I don’t do resolu-tions. I just live by te day. Happy and joyfully.

To open up my very own schnit-zel palace, build from schnitzels! And then I eat it!

The Party Isn’t OverAh, January: The sucky month when there’s noth-ing to look forward to anytime soon. But don’t despair, because there’s another party coming to town! Sunset Valley are holding the very first ‘24 Hour Party’ this week-end! “This is the start of a great tradition for the town” says event organis-er Ben “Boogie” Bransen. Refer to the ad for more details, get your tickets fast, and make sure you have your best dance shoes on – it’s going to be a blast!

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One of the popular cat toys. But clearly they are not being bought for cats (archive photo)

Cat toys popular this holiday season!Not only Sims buy pre-sents. Cats also get a pretty good deal of gifts this season!

SUNSET VALLEY – While the economic cri-sis is still somewhat felt (see previous SVT) we notice that people still like to spoil themselves for Christmas. But not only they like to treat themselves to something nice, but also their pets get something.

“Cats are definitely the most popular pets to buy something for. We see an increase in sales of cat toys this last month,”

according to a local pet store owner. Why cats are popular pets to spoil, is not completely clear. While we see many of Sunset Valley’s inhabit-ants walking the street with dogs, it’s not imme-diately visible that cats are also popular.

Stacey Jones from the local animal shelter can confirm this. “We are actually seeing less cats being adopted from the shelter than previous years.”

Why people still buy cat toys is a mystery.

COMMUNITY VOICE

By Stephanie Miller

Heey everyone. I’m Steph. As in Stephanie. You know, right? So, my mum says I should pay more attention to things around me. Like, read the newspa-per and stuff. So, I was like, read-ing sucks so why not write a let-ter! That’s prob-ably even better. Usually I don’t really listen to her like that by the way. But I just wanna make sure she’s not going to ground me someday. Need to go to the clubs!I’m very good at writing anyway. I do it all the time on Simbook! I got like many friends over there, so lots to write! Keeps me really busy. Omg omg

wait, someone liked my post there. Oh my it’s my crush! He’s like, so hawt!

I really have to go now and write him a post. Hap-py new year eve-ryone, happy tan-ning and painting your nails and skipping school this year! And I wanna say hi to

my bff. So, hi Michelle! Love you baby!

Wow, my letter actually made sense this time, I’m getting better! I spiced up the paper a bit. Mom’s gonna be proud for sure! Maybe I should write more often. I could be, like, a news reporter or something! Wel, bye!!!

Fir needle record brokenSUNSET VALLEY - Mr Pinus, also known as Mr “Get a job!”, has once again performed his an-nual fir needle counting.

This time, he found some surprising results: the av-erage number of fir nee-dles on a Christmas tree is higher than ever be-fore. The average of 2011 was 203810 needles per tree, which, according

to Mr Pinus, is “substan-tially higher” than the old record of 1998, 203465 needles. He told us that he would have liked to find out why the average was so high this year, but he could not find anyone to sponsor this extra re-search.

We suspect it is because nobody really cares.

PISCES

January, that an-noying month

where Christmas is already over and it isn’t your birthday just yet. But well, if you want presents, why not just buy them yourself?

CANCER

A new year, new chance to get more

open-minded. I know it sounds weird when your Dad announc-es he wants to go live with the birds, but hey... just go with it.

LIBRA

Somehow, you are already looking

forward to the next winter holi-days. Try to enjoy the other elev-en months of the year too, you might even see some sunlight!

SAGITARIUS

You might be inde-cisive. Or not. Not

that it is a bad thing, is it? A little doubt is probably good for you, although I wouldn’t be too sure.

SCORPIO

Scorpios and cham-pagne is not a good

combination, as you have once again proven so nicely. You’d better stay in the next few days, weeks or months.

LEO

Because of the cur-rent position of the

stars, people will suddenly be-lieve they can use you as a serv-ant. It is up to you if you are go-ing to put up with that...

VIRGO

Your feet just won’t stop moving this

January, you have to keep danc-ing! It gets even more fun when you find some other Virgos and you all dance together!

GEMINI

You are free to in-terpret the follow-

ing in whatever way you want, as long as you do not just ignore it: dance with a bear in a tutu.

TAURUS

Take good care of your teeth. They

might come in useful in epic fights, when you are reflecting laser beams and stuff.

AQUARIUS

You have made New Year’s resolu-

tions. If you want them to come true, you’ll have to go to the store jumping like a rabbit right now, or they won’t happen.

ARIES

Jelly beans, aren’t they delicious?

Well, this month, they’re also a lucky charm for you, Aries, so you should go and buy them. Use your luck wisely!

CAPRICORN

Watch out for ex-ploding ducks. Nor-

mal ducks might be harmless (although, don’t be too sure about that either), but exploding ones can cause serious injuries.

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SPORTSRESULTS

It’s winter, which means that the people who cy-cle on bikes with way too thin tires go out in the woods and try to survive on a rugged and muddy

track. Yep, it’s cyclo-cross season again. This year, the Sim Cup will be taking place in the woods of Sunset Valley, which means that all of the cy-

cling loving Sims from town are gathered in the woods. We’ll have a report of the competition for you, next month!